Bill Text: TX HB2287 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the operations of certain municipal housing authorities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2287 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2287-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2287 | ||
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| relating to the operations of certain municipal housing | ||
| authorities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 392, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 392.0162 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 392.0162. AREA OF OPERATION OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL | ||
| HOUSING AUTHORITIES. (a) This section applies only to the | ||
| operation of a municipal housing authority operating in a | ||
| municipality that: | ||
| (1) has a population of more than 600,000; and | ||
| (2) is located in a county that has a population of | ||
| 800,000 or more, the territorial boundary of which is contiguous to | ||
| the international border. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Sections 392.014 and 392.017(b), a | ||
| municipal housing authority may operate in: | ||
| (1) the municipality for which the authority is | ||
| created; and | ||
| (2) the county described by Subsection (a)(2), other | ||
| than the parts of the county: | ||
| (A) that are within the territorial boundaries of | ||
| a municipality other than the municipality for which the authority | ||
| is created; and | ||
| (B) in which another housing authority operates | ||
| under this chapter. | ||
| (c) A municipal housing authority may begin operations in | ||
| the area authorized under Subsection (b)(2) only if: | ||
| (1) the authority has completed and presented to the | ||
| commissioners court of the county described by Subsection (a)(2) a | ||
| needs assessment relating to the operation of the authority in the | ||
| county; and | ||
| (2) after a public hearing considering the needs | ||
| assessment provided under Subdivision (1), the commissioners court | ||
| votes to approve the operation of the authority in the applicable | ||
| area. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2287 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 24, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2287 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, | ||
| 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2287 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays | ||
| 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
